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Some Supernatural Source of Primal Energy: An Interview with Benjamin Percy

by Shawn Andrew Mitchell

…ginal notes on the first page, no more. And then I wrote out three general/comprehensive comments at the end. And signed off with “See me if you have any questions.” And they would. If they really cared about their grade and the class, they would come to see me during office hours and I’d take them paragraph by paragraph through the essay. I also kept a watch nearby when grading. I wouldn’t allow myself more than twenty minutes per paper. This was…


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Stories We Love: "Refresh, Refresh"

by Michael Rudin

…animalistic edge snarls. My favorite element of “Refresh, Refresh” is its blueprint and rhythm, the steady incline it so carefully climbs to approach that animalistic side. Like a good fight, the story is planned meticulously, a string of punches and counterpunches that begins with the repetition in those first few paragraphs and never relents. The playfulness of two boys trying to become men in the wake of their fathers’ deployment to Iraq takes…


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by Anne Stameshkin

…quirks, but for their humanity. – Jackie Reitzes reviews Jennifer’s Egan’s latest book, A Visit from the Good Squad, which Reitzes describes as: an array of stories mix into a cohesive novel, each chapter self-contained yet fluid as the grooves of an LP. Structurally, the book flashes forward in one section only to skip back in the next, shifting the protagonist’s point of view in each chapter. And yet, unlike the fragmented, seemingly unconnected…


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A Visit from the Goon Squad, by Jennifer Egan

by Jackie Reitzes

…s all but lost in favor of hit single after single. But in Jennifer Egan’s latest book, A Visit from the Goon Squad, an array of stories mix into a cohesive novel, each chapter self-contained yet fluid as the grooves of an LP. Structurally, the book flashes forward in one section only to skip back in the next, shifting the protagonist’s point of view in each chapter. And yet, unlike the fragmented, seemingly unconnected world of the Shuffle, where…


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Among Strangers: An Interview with Ruiyan Xu

by Brian Selfon

…ted your work? Virginia Center for the Creative Arts / photo from the VCCA website The practical aspect is hard to overvalue. Simply put, as someone who works full-time, I wouldn’t have finished my novel without the help of these incredibly generous institutions. Colonies give you time and space, a chance to make writing your workday. There’s something amazing–and incredibly challenging—about having nothing but the blank screen on your “to do” lis…


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Unclassifiable: Part One of an Interview with Tom Bissell

by James Pinto

…we’d actually played the game, mind you. We knew the levels basically; we knew the story basically; we knew the characters; but we really didn’t know what any of it felt like. So we write these little bits of dialogue to order—and brevity is the real soul of video game writing, because no one is there for the artistry of individual lines—but when the lines were recorded and implemented in the game and we played it, my co-writer, Rob Auten, and I k…


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A Journey to Find Your Place: An Interview with Todd Dills

by Nick Ostdick

…ed his lanky body up to the front of the staged reading area, a box of the latest issue hoisted high above his head. And while I remember very little about the piece Dills read that night, I can vividly recall the performance of it: how Dills shifted his weight from foot to foot, gesturing wildly, voice pitching up and down, an old-fashioned storyteller willing the crowd into a dream. Afterwards, I congratulated Dills on a great reading. And, umpt…


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Searching for the Light Switch: An Interview with Julia Fierro

by Kim Triedman

…te/include something that doesn’t quite sit well with the generative right brain. So my question now is this: unlike me, you’ve come of age as a writer in a kind of traditional way—graduate school for creative writing and then on to teaching yourself. You’ve been teaching aspects of craft for many years now. Do you ever feel that that the critic side of your brain—the editor—carries too much weight in your process? Because there are times when I a…


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Heads of the Colored People, by Nafissa Thompson-Spires

by Jennifer Audette

…1 and develops through snarky correspondence between well-educated, highly competitive mothers of two young girls, Fatima and Christinia. At first the conceit is entertaining and the satire delicious, but before long it becomes stale and I’m eager for the end. However—and I’m just now, as I rewrite this section for the fifteenth time, realizing this—the story that follows, “The Body’s Defenses Against Itself,” offers a subtext that’s created by wh…


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The Ongoing Work of the Writer: An Interview with Beth Mayer

by Sam Tschida

…w right then that Cha Cha McGee was what people would call trouble. And I knew that I wanted to be her friend.” Where did Cha Cha come from? Thank you! I do love Cha Cha McGee. She seems to stay with people, which makes me happy. The seed for this story was reading Nabokov’s Lolita, which was a painful and pivotal book for me as a writer and a woman. For those who haven’t read the book, forget about the creepy—some would say sexy? no, thank you—mo…




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